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Westjet is using its daily, seasonal flights from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Dublin, Ireland as a testing ground for European expansion, airline Chief Financial Officer Vito Culmone told analysts this week at the Cowen and Co. Global Transportation & Aerospace/Defense Conference in Boston. The service, which uses a Boeing 737-700, comes ahead of WestJet’s plans to acquire four used Boeing 767-300ERs and deploy them to Hawaii in late 2015 (Aviation DAILY, July 30).

Low-cost carriers (LCCs) Nok Air and Scoot have taken a major step in their increasingly close relationship with the launch of interline flights and the co-location of their Bangkok operations. The interline arrangement gives Singapore-based long-haul LCC Scoot important feed to its Bangkok flights. It also allows Nok to expand its network offering beyond the short-haul domestic flights it offers with its own aircraft.

Delta Air Lines’s plans to “stand down” four Boeing 747-400s will see three leave the fleet by the end of the month as the carrier rejiggers its transpacific strategy, Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson told analysts. “The 747 is a tough airplane, with its four engines and its large gauge,” Jacobson said at the recent Cowen & Co. conference.

Bombardier is to restart CSeries flight testing and remains confident the initial 110-seat CS100 will enter service in the second half of 2015, despite a halt of more than three months after an engine failure during ground testing. The company says flight testing will resume this month with the second aircraft, FTV2. The aircraft was rolled out at Mirabel on Sep. 5. Bombardier confirms engine runs have begun. Close observers say the aircraft could fly as early as Sep.

Current market values of six-month-old Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A321s are about 50% of their new-list prices, while a year-old Airbus A319 should

Current market values of six-month-old Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A321s are about 50% of their new-list prices, while a year-old Airbus A319 should command about 43% of the manufacturer’s published-list price, analyses from three appraisers shows.

Jim “Speedy” Mathews left Aviation Week Sept. 4, after a 26-year stint that touched almost all of the group’s publications. He left an indelible mark

Alaska Airlines—which this month is adding new flights from its Seattle hub to Detroit, Baltimore and Albuquerque—will continue to add routes to major

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/09/avd_09_05_2014_fuelw.pdf Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint)* As of September 3, 2014, compared with

United Airlines has taken delivery of the first of 26 Boeing 787-9s it has on order and is the first North American airline to receive the 787-9

Garuda Indonesia is putting on hold plans to sell a stake in its Citilink low-cost carrier (LCC) subsidiary. While potential buyers for Citilink had

The captain of the Lion Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed into the ocean just short of the runway at Bali last year tried to land despite having no

By Darren Caplan, Chief Executive, Airport Operators Association With the U.K. desperately needing to expand its air connectivity—and its airports

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/09/avd_09_05_2014_cht1.pdf Top 30 Airports by International Passenger Traffic April 2013 - April 2014 Rank Airport (code) Country International Passengers % Change 1 Dubai (DXB) United Arab Emirates 68 445 790 13.5 2 London Heathrow (LHR) United Kingdom 67 172 267 3.6 3 Hong Kong (HKG) Hong Kong 60 577 512 7.2 4 Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) France 57 485 096 2.6

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/09/avd_09_05_2014_cht2.pdf Top 30 Airports by Cargo Traffic April 2013 - April 2014 Rank Airport (code) Country Cargo Tons % Change 1 Hong Kong (HKG) Hong Kong 362 000 6.0 2 Seoul Incheon (ICN) South Korea 208 277 2.5 3 Dubai (DXB) United Arab Emirates 207 317 3.7 4 Shanghai Pu Dong (PVG) China 195 207 9.8 5 Tokyo nairita (NRT) Japan 168 360 6.7

The new lease extension between Denver International Airport (DIA) and United Airlines is designed reduce near-term costs for DIA—and by extension

In a deep restructuring of its network, Virgin Atlantic is shifting capacity from several long-haul markets to free up aircraft for more transatlantic

Air freight carriers in the Asia-Pacific region came to the statistical rescue in July, boosting global cargo volumes 5.8% year-over-year to a best

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/09/avd_09_04_2014_dataw.pdf Data Watch: Federal Express Fuel Cost and Consumption January 2013 - March

Norwegian Air Shuttle said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced it needs more time to reach a decision on Norwegian

Malmö Aviation, the carrier slated to be the initial Bombardier CSeries operator, has told the manufacturer that it no longer wants to be first in

American Airlines could realize as much as $200 million in annual benefits by mid-2015 or early 2016 from “re-banking” three of its largest hubs

A story in the Sept. 3 issue of Aviation DAILY should have said the first of Xiamen Airlines’ six Boeing 787-8s was delivered on Aug. 31.

Airports are succeeding in lowering the risk of damaging bird strikes, but dangers centered farther from airfields need more attention, the latest U.S

All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Lufthansa have won approval for their proposed joint venture for cargo services between Japan and Europe. Japan’s